Paradise Tanager (Tangara chilensis) [XC571880]
by Mauricio Cuellar Ramirez (@Birding.travel) from V\u00eda Antigua a Neiva, Mirador de los tucanes, Colombia (call, subsong)
Paradise Tanager (Tangara chilensis) [XC662995]
by Leonardo Ord\u00f3\u00f1ez-Delgado from Tundayme (Valle del Quimi), El Pangui, Zamora Chinchipe, Ecuador (call, song)
Subspecies
Molecular data indicate that this species is most closely related to Opal-rumped Tanager (Tangara velia) and Opal-crowned Tanager (Tangara callophrys). Subspecies caelicolor intergrades with paradisea in eastern Venezuela and Guyana. Subspecies caelicolor often misspelt "coelicolor" but former is the original spelling.
The following 4 subspecies are recognised:
paradisea (Swainson, 1837) - South-eastern Venezuela, the Guianas and northern Brazil (south to northern bank of R Amazon).
caelicolor (Sclater, PL, 1851) - Eastern Colombia (Meta, Guainía and Vaupés), southern Venezuela (Amazonas) and north-western Brazil (R Uaupés and upper R Negro).
chilensis (Vigors, 1832) - Southern and south-eastern Colombia (western slope of eastern Andes in upper Magdalena Valley, in Huila; and Caquetá, Putumayo and Amazonas) south to eastern Ecuador, eastern Peru and Bolivia (south to Santa Cruz), and east through western Brazil (east to Rondônia, south-eastern Amazonas eastern Mato Grosso and south-eastern Pará).
chlorocorys Zimmer, JT, 1929 - Northern Peru (upper Huallaga Valley).
BirdLife International Species Factsheet